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  1. Mods hat on. Seriously guys I fail to see the point of this thread which is now just going round in circles. This is a Forum on France. There are plenty of other places on the internet where these sorts of 'discussions' can take place. We need to remember who is providing this service for us and show them a little respect. Personal agendas can be taken elsewhere. This thread is now locked.
    7 points
  2. The definition of 'normal' that I use is 'that which occurs naturally'. There are vast numbers of physical and neuro divergences all of which are products of nature. I myself, for example, am left handed. When it comes to free speech ( or should I say free opinions ) I feel we have the internet to blame. Decades ago people would stand on their soap box and be heard by a couple of dozen people. Now, with retweets, their reach is global and their capability to trigger thousands is out of all proportion to their relevance. It gives all the wrong people the equivalence of a sugar rush.
    6 points
  3. One of the results of selling the MGB is that I've assumed the title chief chef and have become a dab hand with the air fryer. I haven't poisoned anyone yet! I've lately been making pork pies and scotch eggs.
    5 points
  4. You'll have to forgive the understandable scepticism Wally. You asked an incredibly open question then came back within three hours to complain that no one had replied. Like you most people have other things to do and don't spend all their time on here waiting to answer questions from new members. When you later received some considered responses you didn't come back so it was natural to assume you were a troll. FWIW I would advise you decide what area of France you want to live in and rent for a while. It will give you an idea of what life is like outside of the 'holiday bubble'.
    5 points
  5. No particular order… Biden, Macron, Trump, Keith Starmer.
    4 points
  6. I think it is down to the consumer. I happy to pay more for milk, potatoes, tomatoes (for example) as long as the money goes to the producer and not some suit in Paris.
    4 points
  7. This has got to be the best word salad I've seen from a bot yet. I'm tempted to leave it up just for the comedic value.
    4 points
  8. Oh well I tried. Perhaps Henry, next time you go into that workshop of yours you can fashion something out of the large chip you seem to have on your shoulder. I really can't understand why you seem determined to pick fights. Life is too short.
    4 points
  9. Yes, Loiseau, I know what blindé means. When I first heard it on the news a few years ago, I decided to test it on French friends to see if they'd understand me. So during a walk following day, and we passed a deeply ploughed field full of deep ruts, I offhandedly remarked, this looks as though a blindé has passed here. You should have heard the oohs and aahs....nobody thought I'd know the word. I smirked and looked insufferably knowing....😏
    4 points
  10. Menthe, I think I can say without fear of contradiction that Kens 'impressions' are completely his own.
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  11. That, I'm afraid, is beyond our ken.
    4 points
  12. Might I suggest introducing the procedure that a lot of private forums have, new forum members are on probation for six posts to prove that they can post relevant, sensible posts until they are accepted as full members? And no forum names accepted consisting of incomprehensible alpha numeric strings would be accepted?
    4 points
  13. I think that I was (around about) a 2005 joiner, having moved to France in late 2004. Over the years I have gained countless amounts of advice & information. On the odd occasion, I may have been able to reciprocate. I hear some concern over the level of contribution these days. Frankly, I don’t share that concern. Those of us who go back that far can remember some of the acerbic attacks and pointless bickering that went on, almost always from the same culprits. It wasn’t very nice, to say the least. Nowadays, people can (hopefully) ask a question and get some informed and unbiased advice. Even daft boogers like ALBF lighten proceedings .......... and he never seems to take offence ! In summary - quality & civility are better than vitriol, IMO
    3 points
  14. Spent part of yesterday opening a new bank account online. No problem until it came to photographing the id. New passport has something wrong with it. It doesn't work in e-gates and, on this occasion, was rejected as the software insisted it was a photocopy not the original. Thought I was going to have to admit defeat until I noticed that included in the list of acceptable ID's was a French residency card. Fished that out and now everything's good to go. So thank you Brexit, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have had to apply for a card that is more use to me than my British passport.🤣
    3 points
  15. With regards to desirable properties, certainly just over the border in Périgord pourpre, there seems to be a healthy market for châteaux amongst Brit buyers. Something to do with UK TV, perhaps 😁 Another factor in buying big, old properties is the never-ending idea that you can earn a living (or at least supplement your income) by running gîtes. Hasn't ALBF gone quiet? 🤣
    3 points
  16. Quite, could not agree more. Especially since I've just today had my second 3-month clear report - but need to go at least a year before anything changes .. but as you say, dear Menthe, one is never totally free of cancer .. until death, of course. Sorry to be morbid, but you know that is true, as see above, so does NormanH and I presume several more on here. Still, I shall celebrate my news for one evening, at least!
    3 points
  17. Wishing good health and good fortune in 2024 to all forum members young and old
    3 points
  18. I am delighted to say that the owners were found yesterday by one of our team. They are a French family, who were devastated that they had lost her, they will all be reunited at the weekend.
    3 points
  19. What is noticeable is how a thread where the OP asked a reasonable question, and was getting sensible and helpful replies was Hi-jacked by another poster with nothing helpful to say on the topic. I think the moderators should remove such posts from the original thread and invite the person concerned to post in another topic e.g. "Moaning about everything French" or some such title so the rest of us can go on offering whatever help or information we can about the original topic.
    3 points
  20. https://www.pour-les-personnes-agees.gouv.fr deals with most aspects of aging and where to get help
    3 points
  21. As ssomon said mine is automatically entered on the declaration in any case it would be at 7DB Best look at official sources as I used to say quite often https://www.impots.gouv.fr/particulier/emploi-domicile
    3 points
  22. wally, your friend has misled you; by and large the French are friendly and helpful though of course there are those who are not as you would expect in any country. If you make the effort to speak French and try to get involved in the local community then you will find a great welcome. But standoffish Brits will get short shrift!
    3 points
  23. One of the funniest things I've ever read on here.😀
    3 points
  24. I have a feeling you know the perfect destination. 😉
    3 points
  25. Some folk are finding the tone and content of some posts which can be sharp personal attacks to be incompatible with this Forum and I agree. So, could some of you please tone it down, concentrate on relevant content and not take bites out of each other. Otherwise I will set my fellow mod on you and his bite is really memorable!
    3 points
  26. Surely it's much easier for everyone to simply show some respect when they reply to an individual's post.
    3 points
  27. This thread is positively uplifting and I am enjoying it; the mixing of breadmakers and health problems is unique and absorbing. Such a change from the moaning and personal digs we get too often. Keep it up folks. Just to add my euro cents worth, my elderly dog has heart valve problems and despite the pills spends quite a lot of time coughing and spluttering loudly. But then he is about 115 and is entitled. But the noise of his throat clearing means that he has been gently banished from the bedroom to the sofa as he wakes us up. He usually puts himself to bed on the bedroom carpet long before we retire so I have to gently pick him up and move him. As he is no slouch around his gamelle this does not do any good to my back, but we manage.
    3 points
  28. gotta love them 😀 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/21/vive-le-tour-a-human-landscape-across-lhexagone-in-pictures
    3 points
  29. Do you think Ken is short for Kendra 😉
    3 points
  30. 3 points
  31. Lori, I promise it's not where you think it is ..... that is, I am not wearing it on any part of my body😂 Loiseau, Riggers and Lehaut, thank you but don't worry. Certainly the doctor didn't seem too concerned, rather he regarded my face with interest. My face, that's a picture in itself.....yes, maybe by Picasso or some other "imaginative" artist who can be too free with the blues and violets and yellow and reds; not to mention the distortion of the features. I am scared but not frightened enough to be immobilised. Having said that, I have not been out of the house other than the one trip to the toubib's. By tomorrow, if the heat eases, I expect to venture out in the car but only with OH at the wheel. Killing myself is one thing but the thought of killing anyone else is too horrifying to contemplate.
    3 points
  32. Simple, Brexit. SO many were under the radar, now you have to be pukka, no more ducking and diving.
    3 points
  33. 3 points
  34. 'Ken' is programmed to be contrary, even with himself. 😀
    3 points
  35. Thank goodness for that DL, and I think I can say that you have hit the nail exactly on the head
    3 points
  36. He has friends!
    3 points
  37. Ken, I do believe that Menthe knows more than enough about walking (lost track of how long she's been doing it, including Santiago), and IMHO, given the conditions she described, it would have been irresponsible as well as foolish to set of in such conditioins. I've done my fair share of walking in wet weather over the years, Lake District inlcuded when rain can be dangerous as well) and experience counts for more than supposed courage, which in some cases would be labelled stupidity. Not I am not accusing anyone of stupidity on here, but we had friends in the Yorkshire Dales Fell and Cave Rescue teams and some of their stories of stupid walkers were hair raising. Poor scorn on inexperienced walkers (even when they might be your despised tourists who pay the wages of many in our southern areas), but not on experienced walkers like Menthe who took a sensible decision to forego their walk.
    3 points
  38. I DIDN'T say I minded being unable to walk the unforgetable day when the rain was horizontal and we could see nothing for the mist. We were a group of a dozen friends and we had a guide with us. We took our picnics back to the gîte and invited the guide to share our meal. He disappeared into his own house for a while and then came to our gîte to join us for lunch. He brought with him some special pâté that he'd made himself. During the afternoon he spent with us, we learnt a lot from him about walking in the mountains and it was an afternoon that all of us present still now and again remember and talk about with enjoyment. Even "tourists" don't want to be doing touristy things ALL the time. We shall certainly be going to the resto in Banca on our first night there and re-engaging the singers we know to come and sing us Basque songs and no doubt they will be wearing their black berets and red neckerchieves to regale us with their songs and provide the music for dancing. Other thing is, it doesn't do to be too snooty about the tourists; you might not work in the tourism industry but I know that many of the locals in the Pays Basque would find earning a livelihood considerably more challenging without the much needed income that tourists bring.
    3 points
  39. Oh no, not the nature nurture debate.....we'll be here FOREVER!
    3 points
  40. I put it all down to social media and the internet. In fact I put the worlds problems down to social media and the internet. The internet is humanity’s most shītiest invention. It’s polluting peoples brains. Especially childrens and young adults. They know nothing différent and they will never know how life was so much better before. Off topic….but the same sort of thing. I bought my 16 year old a record player and a few records (she loves her music) just to prove to her how vinyl music can sound so much better than spotify through some airpods. She was blown away. Which makes me very happy. Life in France was great in the 90´s. Today, not so much.
    3 points
  41. He has returned to his northern address to continue recovering but is much better I am told.
    3 points
  42. I've no proof but I don't believe that Ken really exists. I think he's an algorithm designed to attach itself to various words and phrases and then aggressively post something inflammatory . Some of the sentence structures are a little off. Also there are the times he contradicts himself between threads. Then there's 'shadow Ken'. I've stopped engaging directly. You can't argue with an algorithm.
    3 points
  43. On a different note, congratulations Dave (or not)! I see you have sold your soul to the woolly bee 😄
    3 points
  44. A question did you flunk geography at school? I think your marketing department should indulge in some research and establish your target market a little more in your favour.
    3 points
  45. I have three actually and their intelligence is certainly higher than some of the posters here!! Perhaps what you are infurring is purfectly accurate!
    3 points
  46. Ter seems to be the new way to pronounce to.........."I was going ter do something". It makes me cringe!
    2 points
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  48. Moderator Dave Ladies and Gentlemen, I'll think you'll agree that we have probably come to the end of the road on this thread so I'm locking it before it degenerates any further.
    2 points
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